Week of November 12, 2007
PhD defense
November 12 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 290:
James Fiedler
Major professor: Jonathan Smith. Topic: Greco-Latin Squares as Bijections
Afternoon tea hosted by Fiedler from 3:30 -4:00 in 404 Carver.
Everyone welcome to these events.
PhD prelim
November 14 at 9:00 a.m. in Carver 390: Chris Kurth
Major professor: Ling Long
Deadlines
- November 15 IMA Participating Institution Conferences applications
- December 1 Reserve a table to participate in the graduate school fair at the joint AMS/MAA meetings.
- Next Inside Iowa State publication date is December 7; deadline to submit items is Monday, December 3 by 10:00 a.m. to Sue Ellen.
Thanksgiving break
November 19 - 23 is Thanksgiving break.
Classes will not meet.
Seminars and colloquia will not be held.
Watch for changes in business office hours.
Hogben participates in international forum
Professor Leslie Hogben presented "Teaching Linear Algebra:
Technology and Resources" to the 3rd Undergraduate Mathematics Courses Forum being held in Chengdu, China. This conference involved a comparison of undergraduate mathematics courses among Chinese, American and Russian Universities. It was attended by about 500 people.
Hogben also lectured on "Combinatorial Matrix Theory" to Professor Ting-Zhu Huang's research group at the School of Applied Mathematics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and then led a discussion.
View photos and more information here.
Above, escorted by local graduate students, Hogben enjoys a bit of Chinese culture.
Colloquia this week
Tuesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 150
Li Guo, Rutgers on "Rota-Baxter algebras, shuffle prodcucts and Birkhoff decomposition "
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
James Fiedler on "Graeco-Latin squares as bijections "
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Trachette Levon Jackson, U Mich, on "Modeling the cellular, molecular, and tissue interactions associated with tumor induced angiogenesis"
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 074
Please attend graduate student seminar on Wednesday.
Probability
CHANGE IN Date/Time/Location: Thursday, November 15, at 11:00 a.m. in 390 Carver.
Jonathon Peterson (University of Minnesota), on "Quenched limits for transient one-dimensional random walks in a random environment"
Computational Algebraic Geometry
Wednesday 2:10 Carver 408
Kenneth Driessel on "Mourrain's criterion and algorithm"
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 232
James Wilson on "Faber polynomials "
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Ryan Martin on "The edit distance in graphs "
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
Karen Shuman, Grinnell College on "Iterated function systems and a result of Erd/H(o)s "
